Efforts by the police to eradicate drug trafficking into the Western Cape yielded positive results with the confiscation of drugs stashed in a bread delivery truck on Friday, 17 April 2020 on the N2 highway near Plettenberg Bay.
Vigilant members of the police were busy with routine checks at a roadblock when they stopped a white Hyundai ten ton truck that was en-route from the Eastern Cape. Upon searching the vehicle they found a box and plastic bag containing 70 bundles of Khat with an estimated street value of R4500 behind the front seat. The police confiscated the drugs and arrested the driver a as well as his passenger.
Both suspects, aged 24 and 28 appeared in the Plettenberg Bay Magistrates’ Court on Friday, 17 April 2020 on charges relating of dealing in drugs.
Western Cape police management commended the members involved in effecting the arrests and subsequent confiscations. The arrests will send a clear message to drug dealers that police are a step ahead and they will face the full might of the law when arrested. Operations to deal with the drug trafficking on exit and entrance routes to the province are set to continue.
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